Now stick to it FRANK FIELD in the Guardian on 14 May became the first Labour MP to publicly call SDP Liberals. for Even Austen Mitchell, who has been pursuing the lonely Labour furrow of campaigning for proportional representation, has not so far felt bold enough to openly urge a coalition.
More interestingly Field quite explicitly drew what is by coherent source of ideas for the Labour right Ine writings or cric noosaw ano orners m answer was clear; political oblective than the defeat of Mrs That. cher and Hobsbawm was prepared to state the some arrangement with the Alliance.
Kinnock's reply to Field on Sunday's Radio 4 tle fad running at the moment.' Labour under his leadership would not enter any coalition with the Alliance. If Labour formed a government but was a minority in Parliament he would demand a new election that would clear up the mess by forcing a decisive result.
There are several points that could be made fact that capitalist constitutional lawyers have made it clear the monarchy should prevent KinThere is no reason to doubt that Neil Kinnock's statement represents his real posita colition easelected sense avoid taking Labour into a coalition -Labour to the right on policies, rebuild working class support, and thereby making it unnecessary, for the Labour leadership to But where Kinnock, and his supporters, are wrong is in believing that what they face is 'a litMors Britaie today entrate Field or c tion to a Labour-Alliance coalition are the right appeal of Roy Grantham. Still clearer was Frank Chapple's complaint after the election that the unions had been too 'loyal' to Labour and should have voted for other 'anti-Thatcher' candidates.
The entire 'new realism' of the right wing of the TUC is not just about trade union the ouch the sell-st of the dand rays stab in the front of the miners, bore the authentic stamp of the policy.
The new realism is also a whole political ap the trade unions from the Labour Party. On this tie due stone here are not of tated to hire abour Party with the right wing ones that ar The coherent expression of this alliance bot in politics and organisation is trying to right wing trade union bureaucracy, in the plans of Alastair Graham, Frank Chapple and their ilk there should be no doubt but that this orientation is now quite conscious. Of course within the bulk of the Labour Party, as opposed to the trade orientation as acte support order such an rank Chapple. But he rejects the only road tha turn of the Labour Party to the left and placing itself at the head of the struggles which are now Editor: ALAN FREEMAN Published weekly except two weeks in August and the last week of December.
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We regret that due to the high cost of postage we cannot .. or acknowledge unsolicited copy or photographs alliance between Labour and the approvingly noted that 'Hobsbawm's there was no more important this mdy involve Was was elected in a sense to Those forces with a line towards coaliThe real battalions with an orientaat the last election was the similar one that is based on the distancing ?
not affiliated to the of accommodation between Labour At the highest levels of the These are expressed in sales -ranied he a stamped addressed envelope IT'S A NASTY and unpleasant experience watching the right wing establishment joining against the miners. After weeks of sniping and offFirst we had Eric Hammond of the EETPU expect from Frank Chapple's protegé?
told his union conference was that he hated to precis stepped Peter Shore -is worth adopting as their transigence of both sides' called for a 50p a week levy miners donation care of the the temptation to sell out which gladdened the heart yorkonire side regional offices of the saving they had no mond.
when the ruling class is gerting more and more exOne of the problems journalist is finding phrases to describeleaders of the labour movement Thatcher and the media suddenly an open right wing but then what else could we Supports the strike' but a situation which the Sunspect of compromise or concludes that the strike 'offers the chance to government policy..
right wing are answering comes, which side of the Blood and want to see the tries to straddle the two ing 'Mr Murray had merely been fulfilling his Via!
agreed with Mr Shore, but who try and perform such balancThe left MPs and trade are in the camp of the rulelse is only to give them a fiend in human Len Murray, graduated from office hot to scab Humberside and defied Murray and his friends did the right and honourable thing. If the TUC and the Labour right refuse to give unconditional support to the miners then indepenaction must organised More Yorkshires and Humbersides is the answer the betrayals of the right.
4 Mr. Arthur Scargill, elected leader of th miners...
Meanwhile we have a bit of advice for Mr Murray. Why wait until the autumn - just go now! And a question to Neil Kinnock. Do remember Neil, how Tony Benn got sacked from the shadow cabinet because he spoke up for Labour conpolicy in parliament?
So why not send Peter Have you ever considered this:
Shore winging back to Stepney with the sugges tion that his local finds someone just that bit more willing to support the miners? People like Murray and Shore have shown once again that the only unity they want is on their terms and is used as a convenient way to attack the left. It never means unity in struggle.
®CORMAC You can keep that kind of rabble. rousing nonsense for some of your trendy lefty friends!!
THE ARREST and charging of 50 miners with offences under medieval riot laws marks a new stage in attempts to use police and state repression to crush police in new ways to break the strike. In the first couple of weeks we saw the police stop Kent miners travelling out of the county through the Dartford tunnel.
In stopping the pickets From the beginning the Tories have used the tain has always been an THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL PICKET Police violence is Socialist Action 25 May 1984
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